Senate Considers How Oversight Failures Allow Large Business to Keep and Get Small Business Contracts

Small Business Contracts: How Oversight Failures and Regulatory Loopholes Allow Large Businesses to Get and Keep Small Business Contracts

Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight

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Tuesday, July 26, 2011 10:00 AM Dirksen Senate Office Building, room SD-342

Since 2005, the Inspector General of the Small Business Administration (SBA) has listed as one of the agency’s top management challenges the fact that large firms are obtaining small business contracts and agencies are counting contracts performed by large businesses toward their small business goals. According to the Inspector General, many contract awards recorded as going to small businesses are actually performed by large businesses.

The purpose of the hearing is to examine the ways in which large businesses are obtaining and performing small business contracts. The hearing will also assess the steps taken by the SBA to improve their oversight in this area and the reasons why the SBA and other agencies have failed to implement the Inspector General’s recommendations. The hearing will also examine what legislative and regulatory steps may be necessary to address these issues.

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Witnesses

Panel 1

• Mindy ConnollyChief Acquisition OfficerU.S. General Services Administration

• Joseph JordanAssociate Administrator, Office of Government Contracting and Business DevelopmentU.S. Small Business Administration

• Mauricio VeraChair, Federal Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization Council and Director, Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business UtilizationU.S. Agency for International Development